What is happening in Burundi is not yet a full-scale civil war or ethnic cleansing, but it may well be a prelude to genocide.

But Britain is likely to need China more than ever after its divorce from the EU common market.

Enthusiasm for state-level tax cuts is on the wane as legislators look at the fiascos in Kansas and Louisiana.

China has twice as much wind energy capacity as the U.S., but still produces less actual wind power.

Beijing’s unwillingness/inability to keep North Korea in line leaves it sidelined.

Despite Dilma’s ouster, Brazil’s many crises continue.

Generous family leave policies advocated by university feminists seem to have backfired spectacularly.

It’s not Turkey’s economic future but its present politics that weighs most heavily on Erdogan. And Putin can lighten or increase his burden at will.

What a Russian governor’s arrest for allegedly taking a bribe tells us about the struggle for control among Putin’s siloviki.

The discoveries of new water supplies for parched California and a massive new reserve of helium in Africa pile fresh dirt on Malthus’s grave.